The night Ryan Moore rode his first ever winner - in a Towcester handicap hurdle
Lee Mottershead speaks to the star rider and his family about that debut victory
The star of this story has won pretty much everything.
His name sits alongside all five British Classics, including the Derby twice. He has won the Gold Cup for the Queen, two Arcs, the Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate, Japan Cup, nine Breeders' Cup prizes and masses more. The Coolmore number one is arguably the world's leading Flat jockey – and his career started exactly 20 years ago in a handicap hurdle at Towcester. He won that as well.
Within the impossibly long list of Ryan Moore's major triumphs are two runnings of the Irish Champion Stakes. Nobody could have known he would win them when he entered the paddock prior to the 8.20pm nightcap on an otherwise extremely ordinary Monday evening at Towcester.
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